I’m interested in increasing my health-span, not just my age span: being in good health as long as I’m around, and being around as long as I’m having fun.

Of course, I could kick the bucket tomorrow. Or a hundred years from now.

Some driver with his head up his cell phone could take me out on the freeway.

Or some bozo could come shoot up a library I’m studying in.

Or we could have a nuclear war, or the Earth could get hit by a chunk of space rock, or another global catastrophe could finish us all off.

Or if none of the things I’m trying work, I could just grow old like most folks do, and die of aging in the typical way. But I’m hoping not to.

There are things people can do to increase their odds of living long, long, long lives. They’re for real, and there’s evidence suggesting they may possibly work. So I’m doing several of ’em. Cause, they’re easy, and why not? You’re welcome to join me if you want.

Reaching escape velocity

Some of the people who are trying to slow down the aging process are doing so in the hopes that aging itself may actually be “cured” by medical science and technology in the future –– a future we might live to see, if we play their cards right now.

Their assumption is that taking steps to minimize or reverse aging now –– even simple, basic things that can lengthen our telomeres, keep our hearts strong and prevent problems like dementia –– may make the difference in keeping us around long enough to be alive when medicine reaches the point of what’s called “escape velocity,” which we’ll probably arrive at in fifty or sixty years –– the point at which medical technology is able to repair the damage that the aging process does, faster than it can pile up.

At that point, assuming that the technology is available for a reasonable price, human beings won’t die of aging anymore. They could still die from other things, but aging will be removed from the list of common causes of death.

In the meantime, even if “all” we’re doing is taking a supplement that might extend your lifespan for a few years –– or fasting periodically, which can theoretically extend the human lifespan by thirty or forty years –– we’re increasing our odds of still being around, and in good health, with a live worth preserving, when a cure for aging is found.

The regimen I’m talking about isn’t difficult, but it is specific, and requires consistency. It involves:

Taking some very specific supplements, such as astragalus, vitamin D3, vitamins B12, B6 and folate, micro-dose lithium, proline-rich polypeptides, CoQ10, PQQ, fish or krill oil, and a special type of magnesium, magnesum threonate, which crosses the blood-brain barrier)

Eating specific foods including fish roe (I eat salmon roe daily)

Doing things like exercising, periodic prolonged fasting, contrast showers, and other interventions which support our mitochondria and so may increase our lifespans and health-spans

In theory, it could help us stay alive until medicine reaches a point where we actually can live as long as we want to. Or at least if we die, aging will no longer be a common cause.